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  • World Youth Champion to study at Tuks in 2013

    Posted on October 17, 2012

    Andries van der Merwe, current world youth champion in the 110-hurdles, has decided that athletics,rather than rugby,is the sport for him.

  • Team Tuks does well at USSA Cross Country

    Posted on October 01, 2012

    Team Tuks 2012 was responsible for one of the best performances by a team from the University of Pretoria in recent years at the USSA Cross Country that was held this past weekend on the campus of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town.

  • Oscar Pistorius top South African athlete at Paralympics

    Posted on September 12, 2012

    Looking back at the past Olympic Games, it was clear the top South African athlete was our own "Blade Runner", Oscar Pistorius.

  • Lehan Fourie breaks 110m Hurdles Record

    Posted on September 09, 2012

    Lehann Fourie from TuksAthletics broke the 11 year old 110m Hurdles record on Friday night at the 36 edition of the Van Damme Memorial Meeting held in Brussels, Belgium when he finished the race in a time of 13.24 sec.

  • Caster Semenya wins silver in London

    Posted on August 12, 2012

    When Caster Semenya was chosen to carry the SA flag during the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, it was a good omen of things to come for the 21-year-old Tukkie athlete.

  • Tuks athlete, Caster Semenya, to carry SA flag at Olympic Games

    Posted on July 19, 2012

    Former world track champion and Tuks athlete, Caster Semenya, was on Wednesday unveiled as Team SA

  • More Tuks athletes included in Team SA for London Olympics

    Posted on July 04, 2012

    Olympic governing body Sascoc announced the addition of a further 13 athletes to the Team South Africa squad that will carry the nation

  • Elizna wins silver in Benin

    Posted on June 29, 2012

    On Day 2 of the CAA African Athletics Championships held in Benin, Elizna Naude won the second silver medal for TuksAthletics in the discus for women with a distance of 55,88 m.

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